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^^Depends on how self-aware you're being while doing/watching something. I never stop my self-analysis. It's how I aced Scientology's "Personality Test." It was fun watching them trying to find their jaws when I hit 95+ on every single category. Then watching them try to come up with some reason I needed one of their courses.

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Another very cool rant to read The Creature. And great posts Monkey Knight Dude Boy too.

I know our brains sees more stuff than we're aware of, H3LL, I see Ghosts all the time so imagine if I could process all that in real time, I'd be seeing Succubi even during the day when I'm waken up. Damn what a cool thought this is.

I like the so called Earth's twin a lot. She's the most beautiful for me.

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^^Just to be clear for the less astrophysicly inclined, "brightest" doesn't mean like looking at a lightbulb or the sun, but rather the energy on the light wave. Think X-rays ramped up to 11.Running through the numbers, and assuming the gamma ray takes 1 nanosecond (10-9) to provide it's energy, each gamma ray has 1 to 10 watts of power each. Put it this way, a standard size lightbulb would instantaneously turn you into plasma if it's output was that high.

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In the movie, Kong appears to be about 25 feet tall in a crouch–about seven times the height of an actual silverback gorilla. At that size, a very rough estimate tells us Kong would weigh anywhere from 20 to 60 tons.

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I know this has nada to do with science, just consider it covert ops. I chose this thread because I didn't see any postings in it from the local riffraff. Just checking to see if he who shall not be named had been apprehended by the Dementors yet?

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^ Holy Cosmic Beauty! We live in a beautiful (and yet very hostile universe).

The human brain is now my biggest scientific and philosophic kick. I've been tweeting about the brain and making up catchy philosophical slogans about brain-knowledge. Mixing in a bit of poetry and philosophy never harms the science, just as long as the terms are still clear and nothing in the empirical data is construed to fit a biased viewpoint. A couple witty aphorisms I've come up with:

In order to truly know thy Self, one must know thy Brain!"Know Thy Brain." This is the postulate of the 21st Century Socrates.Follow the dendrites and axons to their logical conclusions.The way to Self-knowledge, just may be the path of the axons. The thoughtful stroke of the beard has always been the tap on the brain.If one knows the integral functions of the brain, one will begin to better understand the Self.When you voice your emotions, you are voicing the final product of brain-molecules and neural-transmissions. Know your brain, to know what it is you say. Neuro-transmissions: you're in the front row seat of the best concert, program, bio-chemical performance of the world. Your own consciousness!